Eight

That's how many bears we saw on the river in one afternoon. I had to scrapbook about it.  I've never seen more than 2 bears on any one boating trip so to see eight was amazing. I used a big 8 from my set of Tim Holtzes grunge board numbers.  It is sprayed with green Maya Mist and then swiped with brown ink around the edges.

I sprayed the white cardstock across the top edges with 'Frost' Glimmer Mist and inked the corners in brown.  The photo is layered on an 8" x 8" piece of Harmonie patterned paper.  I really like Harmonie's wood cutouts.  Make sure you check them out the next time you're in the store.  I used the 12" tree and owl on a layout last week and here I used leaves and a scroll from the last set I bought.  The leaves create a corner for my photo.  I've layered them over a Fancy Pants diecut.  Did you spot the Prima packaging tucked in over my photo?

The scroll woodcut is nestled in amongst a pile of green Chatterbox buttons.

I glued a couple of buttons over the Basic Grey rub-on lace over my title.

I also used a piece of a Hambly Screens acrylic sheet. That's the black weeds growing up the side.  I can't believe I didn't spot the Hambly stuff earlier.  There is a wonderful butterfly sheet I want to pick up on my next shopping trip.

I hope something amazing happened to you and your family this summer. Don't forget to document the event for your scrapbook.

Talking about Tim Holtz' grunge board.

I just finished a layout using grunge board numbers.  BIG ones!  Last summer my boys were 14 years old.  I did this layout of Duncan in/at/on the Moberly River; right where it comes in to the Peace.

Grungeboard is a lot of fun to play with.  You can ink it, paint it, rough it up, glue stuff to it...
The numbers I had were already embossed with the swirl pattern.  I rubbed black distress ink over them both to bring out the swirls and then coated each number with black distress stickles so they are a little rough and sparkly.

PS: did you notice I used 4 different 2" x 3" photos on this layout.  If you want to know how to get all 4 printed onto one 4x6 photo check out my tutorial a couple posts below.

Get a little Grungy!

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Grunge Board. Grunge board from Tim Holtz is a compressed, flexible sheet of dingy material with a debossed texture that can be painted, inked, sanded, hammered, or grunged.

Grunge board can be used to add dimension and decoration to your project. It can be decorated in any way that you want to enhance your already beautiful designs.